
Data Munching | The numbers don’t lie: the Earth is warming, and rapidly
Hindustan TimesEarth is running a fever, and the latest temperature readings aren’t offering much comfort. Last week, climate data released by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, better known as C3S, presented another warning about the impending climate crisis hovering over humanity — for the first time in recorded human history, 12 consecutive months saw temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial years. C3S data showed that the 12 months leading to February 2024 — the period between February 2023 to January 2024 — saw warming of 1.52 degrees Celsius above the 19th-century benchmark dubbed the “pre-industrial average”, the period between 1850 and 1900, considered by scientists as the baseline to track changes in global temperature, as the pace at which greenhouse emissions entered the atmosphere accelerated due to the use of fossil fuels. Looking at data through the first half of 2023, for instance, in the 181 days between January 1 and July 30, the daily global average surface level temperature was above 1.5°C for 17 days. Only three days this year — incidentally, just one spell between January 12 and January 14 where the average global temperature saw a very marginal dip to 1.46°C, 1.44°C and 1.48°C — have so far been below the 1.5°C mark.
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